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The Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979 | Complex
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No I mean really. I'm being serious here. Where's Del?
It's more a pop list really.
capitalCORN
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Look at it this way, Kendrick lost to DRAKE. This is about bops, nothing more. It's as if Katy Perry won NME's album of the year.
Exactly.
Did no other rapper release anything for Jay-Z to be considered the best of 09?
Edit: NVM 09, how the hell do you give T.I. 04? Other mainstream releases in 04.
Twista - Kamikaze
Kanye West - College Dropout
Jadakiss - Kiss of Death
LLoyd Banks - The Hunger for More
Young Buck - Straight Outta Cashville
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
Cam'ron - Purple Haze
Ludacris - The Red Light District
Might be one of the most stacked years and they give it to T.I. with Urban Legend?
Edit: NVM 09, how the hell do you give T.I. 04? Other mainstream releases in 04.
Twista - Kamikaze
Kanye West - College Dropout
Jadakiss - Kiss of Death
LLoyd Banks - The Hunger for More
Young Buck - Straight Outta Cashville
Talib Kweli - The Beautiful Struggle
Cam'ron - Purple Haze
Ludacris - The Red Light District
Might be one of the most stacked years and they give it to T.I. with Urban Legend?
thequickandthedead
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Where's Hopsin?
lol who the fuck is Edan? the people on this list are at least relevant.
You just prove what I'm saying. This is not the "best rappers" -list, this is the "most popular rappers" -list.
Here's some Edan for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_gowSWM6wg
Andrew Korenchkin
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GTFO!
Dust heads in shambles.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Can we stop with this stuff? People discrediting older styles are just as bad as those who blithy discredit new rap
So in other words this entire thread.
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"why isn't _____ underground rapper on a list of top rappers*"
*based on relevancy and pop culture status
Cindi Mayweather
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2003 belongs to OutKast. 2004 belongs to Kanye.
TissueBox
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It is a list curbing on the stream of mainness and for that it's good...but it did make me laugh at some points. 
Like everyone else I could go "Where's XXX??" and lay down the grief in a paradoxical state of mind...so hay, what the friggle: No Missy Elliott?? (sigh) Sure, she may be somewhat under-the-radar these days and an acquired taste for some -- regarding her being 'great' or 'good' -- but I'm biased and think she owned '02. One day, a list will come...
Like everyone else I could go "Where's XXX??" and lay down the grief in a paradoxical state of mind...so hay, what the friggle: No Missy Elliott?? (sigh) Sure, she may be somewhat under-the-radar these days and an acquired taste for some -- regarding her being 'great' or 'good' -- but I'm biased and think she owned '02.
One day, a list will come...Pinko Marx
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Perfect post + username combo.
Learn you some hip-hop son.
Dunno, Pneumonia is no Dip.
*made by teens.
*wheres logic?
*looks at username*
lol.
Lol @ people thinking this list is based solely on quality as well. It should have been quite clear from the beginning it was not that sort of list. Not sure it have to be. At any rate Edan or whatever the fuck hipster rapper yall want on here did not run hip-hop at any point to even make sense on this list.
Get out of here with that shit, The Cool is an amazing album.
LegendofDragoonLives
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Jay Z is so overrated
lol at that nosedive in quality in the last decade
Pac should have had 1 more year
lol at that nosedive in quality in the last decade
Pac should have had 1 more year
Basically
No idea why people are so salty about this. Is it not clear what they're going for?
kavanf1
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This thread reminds of this guy I recently subscribed to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwX1gkPRic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLn78dfPR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_AZfec82Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWoXzVjDWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwX1gkPRic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLn78dfPR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_AZfec82Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CWoXzVjDWs
What's wrong with Atmosphere?
List seems decent, I'd have made a few changes
91: Ice Cube (Love Tribe but Cube was a better rapper)
92: Kool G Rap (Gotta give it to G Rap at least one year)
95: On a personal level it's GZA, although it's hard to argue with Biggie
98: Andre, Aceyalone, Pun and G Rap were all much better rappers than X that year
2000: Ghostface easily, Supreme Clientele is better than anything Em has ever done.
Once the list gets past 2000 I can't say I really care.
91: Ice Cube (Love Tribe but Cube was a better rapper)
92: Kool G Rap (Gotta give it to G Rap at least one year)
95: On a personal level it's GZA, although it's hard to argue with Biggie
98: Andre, Aceyalone, Pun and G Rap were all much better rappers than X that year
2000: Ghostface easily, Supreme Clientele is better than anything Em has ever done.
Once the list gets past 2000 I can't say I really care.
Come on dude. Thats not true and you know it. F & L and The Cool are modern classics.
bangbang i'm a timpani
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so basically they looked at who was the best artists in the year, ignored it, ran face first into a wall and just picked who had the most hits for the year
Has anybody mentioned how canibus should have been on the list for the sheer fact he was drastically outshining everyone on songs when he came out. I mean i guess you could exclude him because his album was a letdown, but when I think of best rapper I think of being witty,clever,and hungry. Nas didn't even want to do a verse on a song with canibus so he just opted to do the chorus. lol. oh well why should i be mad this is Complex.
going through this thread i wouldn't doubt if a lot of people don't even know who canibus is and if you don't that aint hip hop to me.
going through this thread i wouldn't doubt if a lot of people don't even know who canibus is and if you don't that aint hip hop to me.
Best? Who cares. They're the faces you see on shirts at your local Walmart. Not lyrical genius' like Deltron or Jurassic 5.
ColdLasagna
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Kids these days.
Come on dude. Thats not true and you know it. F & L and The Cool are modern classics.
It's the only good Jeezy album lol. But it's a great one at that.
It makes me smile knowing that I'm not alone.
Using this I can visually see when I started hating Rap music.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Jurassic 5 being considered lyrical geniuses SMH.
Hahahahaha.
Rumblebones
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Kendrick dropped To Pimp a Butterfly in 2015, how is that not his year?
Also, Drake with 3 genuinely makes me laugh at the sheer absurdity.
Fuck it, they might as well give 2016 to Joe Budden, dude been killing Drake all year (also his Freedom Freestyle is dope).
Also, Drake with 3 genuinely makes me laugh at the sheer absurdity.
Fuck it, they might as well give 2016 to Joe Budden, dude been killing Drake all year (also his Freedom Freestyle is dope).
Cool idea. Furthest I'm willing to go back is NWA,
1988 - N.W.A.
1989 - De La Soul
1990 - A Tribe Called Quest
1991 - A Tribe Called Quest
1992 - Pharcyde
1993 - Wu-Tang
1994 - Gang Starr
1995 - Wu-Tang
1996 - OutKast
1997 -Wu-Tang
1998 - OutKast
1999 - The Roots (?)
That's about as far as I can think. OutKast probably reappears a few times in the 2000s.
Dip was what got me into exploring Danny Brown but Pneumonia is his best song to date in my opinion. When it Rain is also fire, super hyped for Atrocity Exhibition.
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